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Aug 28 Writing Tips

An interesting post by Matt Gemmell about how to be a productive writer, really echoing a number of comments and suggestions that were expressed around NaNoWriMo last year. The quoted paragraph below I think is the most difficult to deal with; just getting on with it.

This is the only great secret of how to write anything. Buckle up, because here it is: force yourself to sit down and put words together, for at least a minimum period of time on most days of the week. Eventually, you’ll have put a lot of words together. It gets easier as you go on. That’s it. Discipline is everything.